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healthcare.gov vulnerability?
From: Steve Furlong <[email protected]>
On Wed, Apr 9, 2014 at 2:36 AM, jim bell <[email protected]>wrote:
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>> Might somebody (potentially a supporter of Obama and/or Obamacare) have
>>Â deliberately 'spammed' it with fake signups, simply to get the number of
>>Â such signups increased?
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>Possible, I suppose, but why bother? They could just make up numbers and they'd be repeated as gospel by the l>apdogs, lickspittles, and fellow travellers. ref practically every other number coming from the US federal and >state governments.
True, but I think they'd prefer to (later on) be able to blame some unknown-named and unidentifiable 'hacker-types' than to implicate themselves. Â ("I'm shocked, shocked to find that gambling is going on in here!")
This tactic wouldn't be useful at all if follow-on data (like actually-paid accounts) were released. Â Probably this explains why those numbers remain elusive even today.
     Jim Bell
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